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Monsanto reported offering again to buy Syngenta

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 30, 2015

Reuters — Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, has again approached Switzerland’s Syngenta in recent weeks with an offer to buy the company, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. However, the Swiss crop chemical maker has concerns, as the merger would raise antitrust issues, Bloomberg said. The two companies may again fail to […] Read more

Crops, News

2015 crop input rebate roundup

Corporate rebate programs can make a difference to your bottom line, or at least give you a bonus cheque  

By Leeann Minogue April 28, 2015

I’m sure you’ve seen most of this information in your mailbox at least once, but here’s a chance to see a rundown of all the input rebate programs in one place, to make it a little simpler to compare offers while you’re putting the final touches on your spring seeding plans. For the most part, […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentine farmers say Monsanto soy contract breaks local law

By GFM Network News April 16, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine farm groups on Wednesday asked soy export companies to stop inspecting cargoes for bootlegged biotechnology at the behest of U.S. seed company Monsanto, the latest move in a long conflict between the country’s farmers and Monsanto. Growers in Argentina, the world’s top exporter of soymeal livestock feed, have signed […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Chinese citizens sue government over transparency on Roundup

By GFM Network News April 9, 2015

Beijing | Reuters –– Three Chinese citizens are taking China’s Ministry of Agriculture to court in a bid to make public a toxicology report supporting the approval of Monsanto’s popular herbicide, Roundup, 27 years ago. The case, a rare example of a lawsuit by private citizens against the Chinese government, comes amid renewed attention on […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Scientist defends WHO group report linking glyphosate to cancer

By GFM Network News March 26, 2015

Reuters — A World Health Organization group’s controversial finding that the world’s most popular herbicide is “probably carcinogenic to humans” was based on a thorough scientific review and is a key marker in ongoing evaluations of the product, the scientist who led the study said Thursday. “There were several studies. There was sufficient evidence in […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Monsanto seeks retraction for report linking herbicide to cancer

By GFM Network News March 24, 2015

Reuters — Monsanto, maker of the world’s most widely used herbicide, Roundup, wants an international health organization to retract a report linking the product’s chief ingredient to cancer. The company said Tuesday that the report, issued on Friday by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), was biased and contradicts regulatory […] Read more

Crops

Monsanto rips cancer agency’s Roundup takedown

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 20, 2015

The decision by an international group of cancer experts to classify the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide as “probably carcinogenic” has drawn fire from the product’s main maker. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a France-based arm of the World Health Organization, on Friday released its working group’s evaluations on the cancer-causing potential […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Monsanto settles more U.S. farmer claims over GM wheat

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 18, 2015

The 2013 discovery of experimental Roundup Ready wheat plants in a farmer’s field in Oregon has led the crop’s developer to settle suits brought by wheat growers in seven U.S. states. Monsanto Co. said Wednesday it had reached a settlement agreement with growers in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, stemming from Japan’s […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Environmental group sues U.S. EPA over monarch butterfly levels

By GFM Network News February 28, 2015

Reuters — An environmental group sued the U.S. government on Friday, accusing regulators of discounting dangers a widely used herbicide is alleged to pose to the declining monarch butterfly population. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in U.S. District Court in New York. The suit claimed […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

Pearce: Monsanto’s next-gen weed control trait on deck

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News January 23, 2015

The question has been asked time and again for the past three or four years: when will we see Monsanto’s Xtend technology in Canada? The answer has been wrapped up in a long list of concerns and government procedure, but the first glint of opportunity for growers has cleared the next-to-last of a series hurdles. […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

Tag Archives Monsanto

Monsanto reported offering again to buy Syngenta

2015 crop input rebate roundup

Argentine farmers say Monsanto soy contract breaks local law

Chinese citizens sue government over transparency on Roundup

Scientist defends WHO group report linking glyphosate to cancer

Monsanto seeks retraction for report linking herbicide to cancer

Monsanto rips cancer agency’s Roundup takedown

Monsanto settles more U.S. farmer claims over GM wheat

Environmental group sues U.S. EPA over monarch butterfly levels

Pearce: Monsanto’s next-gen weed control trait on deck

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